Paulo Freire:

Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

— Paulo Freire Modern

Pedagogy of the Oppressed

Context

From 'Pedagogy of the Oppressed'

Date / Period

1968

Source

https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/726523-pedagogia-do-oprimido

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